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More Union workers are supporting Trump than ever before.

More Union workers are supporting Trump than ever before.

Maybe not the teachers or government workers, but the Joe bag of donut workers are. Even never Trumper pollster Frank Luntz is seeing it.

Why are Union Members Turning to Trump?

One of the key reasons cited by Frank Luntz for President Trump’s popularity among union members is that they feel their voices are not being heard by their union leaders. In his focus groups, Luntz found that many union members expressed frustration with their leadership, feeling that they do not truly represent their interests. This sentiment of being disenfranchised by traditional union leadership has driven many union members to look for alternative candidates who they believe will better advocate for their needs.

Moreover, President Trump’s focus on job creation and his efforts to renegotiate trade deals have resonated with union members, particularly those in industries that have been hard hit by globalization. Trump’s promises to bring back manufacturing jobs and protect American workers have struck a chord with many union members who feel that their livelihoods are at risk.

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Yes Virginia, there are Black Jobs. Just ask any Black union worker who will tell the truth.

Yes Virginia, there are Black Jobs. Just ask any Black union worker who will tell the truth. Sure you have your regular jobs that are mostly black and brown. House keeping comes to mind. But Unions? What Union doesn’t use affirmative action?

Granted a large number of the Blacks are on the bottom. Labor. But those were created positions. Now a few do get in the skills or management, but that’s because of quota systems.

Hopefully under the next administration, jobs will be for the qualified, regardless of color. Jobs shouldn’t be color labeled, but also Blacks need to do it on their own and not take a job because a certain number needs to be filled.

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Unions destroy the California housing market.

This editorial board routinely decries the failure of state lawmakers to address some of the biggest issues that confront California, but we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the state’s continuing commitment to loosen the encrusted housing-construction rules that create years-long delays to build important new projects.

The latest two governors have signed dozens of housing-related bills — the most significant of which reduce housing regulations and zoning requirements. One of the earliest ones is 2017’s Senate Bill 35 by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. Although we generally disagree with his politics, we can’t deny that Wiener has been a force of nature on the housing front.

SB 35 created a template for housing reform. It gives developers have a right to build their properties without going through the long and subjective local approval process provided the projects meet some basic standards.

For instance, the streamlined projects must be multi-family projects located on an urban infill site and conform to general zoning and design standards. The projects also must contain certain levels of affordability and conform to a long list of other standards. Developers also were required to pay their workers union-level wages.

Obviously, we prefer a wider loosening of standards, but negotiating any serious reform that might actually pass in the state Capitol means confronting the vested interests that hold sway. SB 35 passes our test of offering far more good than bad, even if we have to hold our collective noses at the bad.

Prominent research already has detailed the specific ways that SB 35 has helped cities build affordable-housing and homeless-related projects. However, SB 35 will sunset in 2026 and Wiener has introduced a new bill, Senate Bill 423, to make its provisions permanent.

The legislative sausage-making process never is pleasant, but it’s dismaying to see major unions throw a wrench in that process to achieve self-interested provisions. The bill would eliminate certain union-only hiring regulations because, as CalMatters explained, “there aren’t enough unionized construction workers to build all the new housing California requires.”

Two major unions have admirably backed the bill even though some of the more politically powerful construction unions oppose it, the article adds. Former Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez — author of disastrous Assembly Bill 5, which largely banned independent contracting — attacked the proposed change in her usual class-warfare manner.


Unfortunately, local governments also opposed the law’s extension. Transparently slow-growth efforts by cities such as Huntington Beach to stymie housing construction, however, only reinforce the need for state regulatory pre-emptions.
Regarding union opposition, construction trades already enjoy many government-granted privileges. Trade unions tout the benefits that they offer builders in terms of training and apprenticeship programs. So union workers will naturally grab the lion’s share of new construction jobs, but they want to use the government to grab it all.

“We say, represent and raise all workers up,” Northern California Carpenters Regional Council executive secretary Jay Bradshaw told CalMatters. “It’s an organizing opportunity and we’ll produce housing at all income levels.” We wholeheartedly agree.

Housing streamlining rules such as SB 423 will help the state meet its desperate housing needs – and help all workers in the process. They help cities, too.

It would be a shame if narrow interests derail one of the rare areas where the state has the right idea.

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Teachers UNIONS put up the yellow flag. Cowards are afraid they’re going to die.

Teachers UNIONS put up the yellow flag. Cowards are afraid they’re going to die. The UNION thugs want to lock down the schools nationwide. Afraid of the virus is going to get them.

Let’s fix this nonsense. President needs to declare them essential workers. That way you take away the bitching and moaning.